It doesn’t get any creepier than the master of horror at his very best. Here are six of his most chilling movies:
Christine (1983): She's a 1958 Plymouth with jealousy and evil under her hood, but Arnie Cunningham (Keith Gordon) isn't aware of his new ride's demonic qualities when he buys her, lovingly restores her, and then discovers she’s grown violently possessive of her new owner. Stand By Me (1986): Low-key sleeper hit, based on the novella "The Body" by Stephen, follows four young boys (River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, Jerry O'Connell, Wil Wheaton) in 1959 Oregon who set out on a Labor Day camping trip in order to see a dead body one of them accidentally found. Along the way the friends take some hesitant steps on the road to maturity. Sleepwalkers (1992): In his first film written directly for the screen, King tells the story of a small-town teenager (Brian Krause) and his beautiful mother (Alice Krige), who may appear perfectly normal but turn into catlike demons called "sleepwalkers" who need to extract the lifeforce from virgins to stay alive. Apt Pupil (1998): A cat-and-mouse game between a teenager (Brad Renfro) obsessed with the Holocaust and his elderly neighbor (Ian McKellen), who was a notorious Nazi death camp officer, reaches a murderous intensity when the teenager blackmails the man into graphically recounting the horrors of his past crimes. Secret Window (2004): Based on a novella by King, this haunting thriller follows a struggling writer (Johnny Depp) as he attempts to rebuild his life after a bitter divorce. His world begins to rapidly spin out of control with the arrival of a deranged would-be novelist (John Turturro), claiming that the author plagiarized his work. Bag Of Bones (2011): King's book becomes an eerie two-part telefilm as a novelist/widower (Pierce Brosnan) tries to purge the demons causing his writer's block by returning to the seaside Maine retreat he shared with his late wife (Annabeth Gish).
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